Background

What are police dreams about?

The police and individuals that are given the authority to maintain law and order. In theory, they seek out and prevent crime. The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about police dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with police dreams. These are the words that make police dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of police dreams can be illuminating about show police affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example police dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how police in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that police is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that police is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, police dreams have more unnamed people than 99.8% of dream symbols, more transportation than 95.8% of dream symbols, and more home than 95.0% of dream symbols. On the other hand, police dreams have less insects than 84.7% of dream symbols, less love than 82.1% of dream symbols, and less fantastic beings than 81.4% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of police are aggressive! Police dreams have more aggressive interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Aggressive interactions involve attacks, arguments, yelling, pushing, killing, and so on. These dreams can be scary, stressful, or confusing. But, as with all dreams, it is best to explore what is there. Why was there aggression? Was it really aggression? Furthermore, dreams of police are very social! Police dreams contain more characters tan 90% of all other dream symbols. Dreams, in general, are very social. There are people or characters in almost every dream, so it is notable that police dreams have are so social. Finally, police dreams are about death. Better stated, police dreams contain more death and dying than 90% of all other dream symbols. Dreams help us process our emotions, understand our fears, and grieve. Death in a dream is not necessarily a bad thing. Dreaming of death can help us overcome fears or say good bye to loved ones. But, then again, dreams of death might simple just be dreams. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of police is different than dreams of police in general.

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of dreams have police

How common are police dreams?

3.7% of dreams have the police symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 25 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively common.

Identification

How are police dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like cop, police, and security guard. This symbol is part of summary dream symbols characters and unnamed people.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of police?

Police dreams are notable because they have substantially more verbs, tasers, burglary, arresting, jails, fingerprints, movement, detectives, crime, criminals and outlaws, accomplices than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of police?

Police dreams are notable because they have substantially less Algeria, Frodo, Gimli, Hannibal Lecter, harpoons, indigo, inner selves, Kuwait, landslides, Laos, Fiji than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into police dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in police dreams.

Who is in dreams of police?

Who is in dreams of police?

Dreams of police are much more related to unnamed people, much more related to strangers, and more related to peers than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.

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What are the emotions in dreams of police?

What are the emotions in dreams of police?

Police dreams are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

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Where do dreams of police take place?

Where do dreams of police take place?

Dreams of police are much more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human-made places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.

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What happens in dreams of police?

What happens in dreams of police?

Dreams of police are much more related to aggressive acts, more related to eating and drinking, and much more related to death than dreams in general.

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How do dreams of police related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of police related to the type of dream it is?

Dreams of police are more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.

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How do dreams of police related the senses?

How do dreams of police related the senses?

Dreams of police are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to taste.

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How can you make sense of police in dreams?

Police dreams are relatively common. Among other things police dreams are aggressive, very social, and about death. Do you think this is true for your dream of police? How might your dream of police be different?

All dreams have meaning

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience police in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about police in dreams. See how you feel about police now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of police dreams

An interpretation of police dreams

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. Police officers in dreams are among the most common “generic characters,” meaning they are not usually depicted as someone you know and instead are like actors playing a role or extras in a movie. The high frequency of reports of police characters in dreams probably stems from the wide variety of ways they can be used as symbolism. To begin, police officers are associated with authority, rules, settling disputes, justice and determining right from wrong. Now consider how those associations connect with areas of life, and how a police officer can be used as symbolism. For example, defying a cop can symbolize defying authority or rules—either specific authorities or rules, or just in general. Running from a cop can symbolize fear of getting caught doing something wrong. Police officers make arrests. See: Arresting Police officers restrain people. Lack of restraint can mean you “shoot first and ask questions later,” meaning you react to tense situations by getting angry or defensive. Or you pursue sexual encounters even when they cause trouble or put you at risk. Police are associated with conformity. Police in dreams can symbolize societal or cultural forces that promote or enforce conformity and norms of conduct and behavior. Police out to get you can mean that you are knowingly doing something that’s wrong, illegal, or reckless. For example, people with drinking or drug habits will dream about police searching or detaining them because police enforce alcohol-and-drug laws. If you make a decision to clean up your life, you might dream about police officers at your home removing unruly guests or intoxicants, as a way of symbolizing removing something causing trouble in your life. Dreaming about running from the police can mean you don’t want to control or restrain a habit or behavior—or even acknowledge there is a problem. It can show that you deny your inner authority, authority structures, blame, responsibility, or your conscience. Police are used in dreams when you feel that an injustice has been committed against you, or that you have been unfairly treated. Police can be used to symbolize taking the blame for something—rightly or not. For example, you know that a snafu at work was your doing, but you haven’t been exposed as the source. That night you dream about police searching your computer because you know it’s where the evidence can be found. Looking for evidence is another common theme in dreams involving police, and it arises most often when you’re trying to figure why and how something happened, or are protecting yourself from blame. See: Detectives Police in dreams can connect with issues of privacy or intrusion. You might dream about the police because you wish someone would butt out of your life or stop making trouble. Or someone is behaving in a way that makes you uncomfortable, crosses a line, or just isn’t right. It might not be illegal behavior, but you still dream about the police because you wish an outside authority would intervene or correct the person. The possibilities for symbolism go on and on. For example, a recurring dream about making a right turn and crashing into the back of a police car symbolizes that the dreamer feels punished for doing the right thing. She had turned in her brother to the police for committing a serious crime, and their father resented her for it. A dream about a police officer coming into a scene as the dreamer is rolling a joint symbolizes his self-knowledge that his marijuana usage is putting him in danger of getting caught. A dream featuring the dreamer in a role of a cop ignoring a crime symbolizes a situation where the dreamer witnessed blatant cheating on a test and didn’t say anything about it. See also: Addicts, Arresting, Chasing, Cheating on tests, Courts, Crime, Detectives, Drugs, Guilty, Intruders, Jails, Judges, Lawyers

Examples of dreams of police

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of police dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for police dreams. Read at your own risk.

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